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DRINK REGISTERING ATTACHMENT FOR LIQUOR BOTTLES. N0. 396,021.

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Patented Jan. 8, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY C. BARKER, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR ()l ONE-HALF TO HENRY P. SCOTT, OF SAME PLACE.

DRINK-REGISTERING ATTACHMENT FOR LiQUOR EiOTTLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 396,021, dated January 8, 1889. Application filed July 9, 1888. Serial No. 279,350. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern..- and off the curved end of lever I as the bot- .Be it known that I, HENRY O. BARKER, of tie is inverted or held upright during use. Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri, have Mounted upon a projecting end of the shaft invented a new and useful Drink-Registering 9 is the pointer or hand D, so as to move in 5 Attachment for Liquor-l3ot-tles, of which the unison with ratchet-wheel C. One side of the following is a full, clear, and exact descripcase is provided with agraduated dial, E, tion,reference being had to the accompanying upon the outer visible face of which figures drawings, forming a part hereof. or characters indicating the price of a given My invention relates to attachments which, number of drinks are located. For the pur- 60 IO when secured on an ordinary liquorbotl'le, pose of protecting this dial and pointer, a register the number of drinks (or the money plate of glass, F, or other transparent mateequivalent thereto) removed from said bottle; rial, is located over them, so as to form one and it maybe said to consist in the novel side of the case, as shown more clearly in construction, combination, and arrangement Fig. 3. 5 of devices hereinafter set forth, and pointed The operation of the instrument is as folout in the claim. lows: \Vhen the bottle is inverted, as it al- In the drawings, which illustrate the manways in pouring liquid therefrom, the ball ner of carrying out my invention, Figure 1 is H gravitates downwardly and rolls onto and a perspective view of my invention applied to depresses the curved end of thelever I, which a bottle. Fig. 2 is a sectional side view of operation moves the pointer I) one notch, same, the neck of bottle and case of instruthereby indicating that one drink has been ment being broken away to show the intertaken from thebottle, and so on. The dial E nal construction; and Fig. 23 is a section on may be provided with any suitable characline m 11,Fig. 2. ters upon its t'aecsuch, for instance, as 'fol- 7 A indicates an ordinary bottle used for lows: 5c., 10c, c, 1.50, day, up to any dedrinking purposes in bars, saloons, &c., to sired amount. which is attached bysuitable means-such as For the purpose of ai'iachinglhe instrument straps or clamps l), which encircle the neck of to the neck of the bottle, I provide the case the bottlea closed case, B, containing the I; with projecting lugs a at opposite ends, 3o operative parts of the instrument. \Yithin which lugs are engagedbystraps I, and screws this case is mounted on a short shaft, 2, a (3, which latter are passcdthrougli both straps toothed ratchet-wheel, C, which is engaged by and lugs, and may be riveted to prevent rea pawl, (7, carried by a lever, I, which latter moval. is also mounted in said case and pivoted at For the purpose of preventing egress of 5 about the middle of its length, so that its 3 liquid until the bottle is sulticicnily inverted ends may rise and fall during operation. The to cause the ball II to act upon the i'iperatingpawl (Z is hinged to one end of lover I, while i lever I, I locate a tubular cork or plug, .I, its opposite end is slightly curved inwardly, within the neck of said bottle, the function so that a loose ball or weight may the more 5 of which requires the bottle to be turned or 4o readily roll upon it and depress it. A suitatipped a cmisiderablc amount before permitble coiled or otlmrform of spring, 3,ismounted ting any liquid to run out. upon lover I, so as to engage it and also 011- g In carrying out my invention it is obvious gage the pawl (Z to return and hold the latter that many slight changcs in its meelmnical to normal position. Another spring, 4 is ap- 1 construction can be made without departing 45 plied to the lever-I for the purpose of returnfrom its scope and spirit, and I do not thereing and holding it to normal position after fore desire to limit myself to the particular engagement with ball ll. Said ball ll is loconstruction which I here show. cated in a receptacle, 0, which forms a part Having thus dcscribcd my invention, what of case B, and which is slightly larger in di- I claim is I00 50 mensions than said ball is, so that the ball In a registering attachmentfor bottles, the may be loosely mounted therein and roll on i combination of a closed case provided with exterior devices which hold it upon the botengagement with said ball, the pointerD, also tle, the shaft 2, mounted within said ease, the mounted upon shaft 2, so as to move in uniratchet-wheel C, mounted on said shaft, the son with the ratchet-wheel, and a graduated. lever I, pivotally mounted in said ease, the dial-plate, substantially as described.

5 pawl (I, carried by one end of said lever and In testimony whereof Iaffixmy signature in 15 arranged to engage the teeth of the ratchet- I presence of two witnesses. wheel, a loose ball, II, which engages and de- HENRY C. BARKER. presses the end of said lever opposite said Witnesses:

pawl when the bottle is turned a spring which J. C. HIGDON, 10 returns the lever to its normal position after F. G. FISCHER. 

